• Žižek, Slavoj. Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.

Films

B

• Batman (Tim Burton), 172n2
• Being There (Hal Ashby), 176n11
• Betrayal (David Jones), 70
• The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock), 18, 93, 96–98, 99, 104–106, 117, 178n3
• Bladerunner (Ridley Scott), 173n3
• Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni), 143
• Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan), 112
• Brazil (Terry Gillian), 128, 129

C

• Casablanca (Michael Curtiz), 69
• City Lights (Charles Chaplin), 75
• Creepshow (George A. Romero), 22

D

• Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelmann), 173n13
• Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock), 177nl
• Driver (Walter Hill), 112–113
• Duck Soup (Leo McCarey), 73

E

• Elephant Man (David Lynch), 40
• Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg), 29–30, 129–130, 173n12

F

• Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock), 173n13, 180n7
• Field of Dreams (Phil Robinson), 171–172n6
• Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock), 88, 102
• Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock), 96, 102, 174n23
• Friday the Thirteenth (Sean S. Cunningham), 22

G

• The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin), 75

H

• Halloween (John Carpenter), 22
• The Hustler (Robert Rossen), 101

I

• I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock), 74, 78–79, 101
• The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman), 40

L

• Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery), 41, 42
• The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock), 79, 81, 100, 101, 182n13
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls), 155
• A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), 82, 182n13
• Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock), 144
• Lili Marleen (Rainer W. Fassbinder), 128–129
• Limelight (Charles Chaplin), 75

M

• Mad Max II (The Road Warrior)]] (George Miller), 126–127
• Manhunter (Michael Mann), 107–108, 109
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock), 93, 178n3, 180n13
• Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker), 174n23
• Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin), 75
• Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock), 74–75, 76
• Murder (Alfred Hitchcock), 101
• My Name Is Nobody (Sergio Leone), 139

N

• Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven), 23
• The Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero), 22
• North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock), 75-76, 98–99, 104
• Nosferatu (Werner Herzog), 23
• Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock), 73, 96, 102

O

• The Old and the New (Sergei Eisenstein), 118
• Once upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone), 139
• Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack), 111
• Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur), 66

P

• Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock), 74, 93, 96, 98–99, 117, 118, 126, 127

R

• Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock), 91–93
• Reds (Warren Beatty), 174–175n23
• Robocop (Paul Verhoeven), 22
• Rope (Alfred Hitchcock), 41, 42, 74, 78

S

• Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock), 101, 102, 119–120, 121–122
• Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock), 71–72, 120
• Samurai (Jean-Pierre Melville), 113
• The Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock), 101
• The Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang), 145
• Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock), 96, 102, 178n3
• Shane (George Stevens), 112, 113–114
• Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock), 101
• Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock), 42, 74, 78, 102, 116

T

• The Terminator (James Cameron), 22
• The Thief (Russell Rouse), 41–42
• The Thirty-Nine Steps (Alfred Hitchcock), 100–101, 104
• Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock), 120, 121
• The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock), 26–27, 178n3

U

• Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock), 96, 102

V

• Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock), 83–87, 98, 182n13, 183nl

W

• When a Stranger Calls (Fred Walton), 127–128
• Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang), 16–17
• The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock), 76, 97, 98

Y

• Yakuza (Sydney Pollack), 155–156
• Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock), 96, 100, 101

Popular Literature, Theater, and Opera=

A

• Asimov, Isaac

"Jokester," 18

"Nine Billion Names of God," 45

B

• Beckett, Samuel

Waiting for Godot, 145

• Bizet, Georges

Carmen, 30, 63–64

• Brecht, Bertolt

The Threepenny Opera, 4, 110

C

• Carr, John Dickson, and Adrian Conan Doyle,

"The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle," 55–56

• Chandler, Raymond,

"Red Wind," 61–62

• Christie, Agatha

The ABC Murders, 55

Murder on the Orient Express, 176n12

D

• Dahl, Roald

"Genesis and Catastrophe," 181n3

• Doyle, Arthur Conan

"The Adventure of the Retired Colourman," 175–176n10

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band," 54

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 48

"The Red-Headed League," 54–55

"Silver Blaze," 57–58

H

• Hammett, Dashiell

The Maltese Falcon, 8, 65, 66

• Heinlein, Robert,

"They," 80–81

• The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag;;, 13–15, 19, 29
• Highsmith, Patricia,

"Black House," 8–9, 118, 133, 136

"The Button," 134–136

"The Mysterious Cemetery," 133, 135–136

"The Pond," 133, 135–136

Strangers on a Train, 176n14

"The Stuff of Madness," 154–155

I

• Irish, William (Cornell Woolrich),

Phantom Lady, 79

J

• Joyce, James

Finnegans Wake, 151

K

• Kafka, Franz

The Trial, 15, 18, 114, 146–151, 160

• King, Stephen

Pet Sematary, 25–26

M

• McCullough, Colleen,

An Indecent Obsession, 160

• Meyer, Nicholas

The Seven Per-Cent Solution, 50

• Millar, Margaret

Beast in View, 176n14

• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Don Giovanni, 34

The Magic Flute, vii, 100

O

• Offenbach, Jacques

Hoffmann's Tales, 177n7

• Orwell, George

1984, 158

P

• Poe, Edgar Allan

"The Purloined Letter," 50, 61, 72, 98

• Priestley, John B.

The Dangerous Corner, 17

Time and the Conways, 70

• Proust, Marcel

Un amour de Swann, 144

R

• Rendell, Ruth

"Convolvulus Clock," 138–139

Judgement in Stone, 71

Talking to Strange Men, 30–31

The Tree of Hands, 32

S

• Saki (H. H. Munro), "The Window," 171n6
• Scheckley, Robert, "Store of the Worlds," 6–7
• Shakespeare, William

Hamlet, 23, 27

King Lear, 12

Richard II, 9–12

Timon of Athens, 12

• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, 172n6

• Sophocles,

Antigone, 23, 25–26, 27, 63

W

• Wagner, Richard,

Tristan und Isolde, 30, 115

Other Writers and Artists Cited

A

• Adorno, Theodor W., 142

B

• Bellour, Raymond, 117
• Benjamin, Walter, vii
• Bentham, Jeremy, 92
• Bonitzer, Pascal, 144
• Brooks, Peter, 63–64

C

• Chabrol, Claude, 74
• Chesterton, G. K., 48, 54
• Chion, Michel, 40, 82, 93, 126, 127
• Christie, Agatha, 48, 62, 175n7. See also under section 2
• Churchill, Winston, 28

D

• Davidson, Donald, 153
• Deleuze, Gilles, 24, 74, 142
• Derrida, Jacques, 125, 142
• Disney, Walt, 182n18
• Doyle, Arthur Conan, 48, 60. See also under section 2

E

• Eisenstein, Sergei, 89, 95, 118
• Elster, Jon, 76, 77

F

• Foucault, Michel, 92, 142
• Freud, Sigmund, 23–24, 28, 37, 40, 44, 50–53, 71, 73, 120, 136, 137, 152–153, 159, 165, 169, 178n14

G

• Guattari, Felix, 24

H

• Habermas, Jürgen, 141–142, 157
• Hammett, Dashiell, 62–63
• Hawking, Stephen, 46–47
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 3, 37, 77–78, 87
• Heidegger, Martin, 136
• Holbein, Hans, 90–91, 96
• Homer, 4–5
• Horkheimer, Max, 142

J

• Jameson, Fredric, 112
• Joyce, James, 137, 145–146. See also under section 2

K

• Kafka, Franz, 145–146, 160. See also under section 2
• Kant, Immanuel, vii, 156, 157, 159, 161–162, 167–168
• Kripke, Saul, 103

L

• Lacan, Jacques, 5–6, 21, 28–29, 33–39, 65, 75, 88, 90–91, 95–96, 98, 103, 108–110, 118–119, 125–126, 128–132, 135–139, 151–153, 158, 161–169
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 76, 147
• Lewton, Val, 144

M

• Malevich, Kasimir, 19
• Mannoni, Octave, 34
• Marcuse, Herbert, 142
• Marx, Groucho, 73, 85
• Marx, Karl, 12, 33, 141, 157, 159, 162–168
• Miller, Jacques-Alain, 38, 94–95, 135
• Milner, Jean-Claude, 3–5

N

• Nietzsche, Friedrich, 141–142

P

• Parmenides, 3, 6
• Pascal, Blaise, 33
• Pinter, Harold, 70
• Poe, Edgar Allan, 85
• Ponelle, Jean-Pierre, 115

R

• Regnault, François, 106
• Rohmer, Eric, 74
• Rorty, Richard, 157–160
• Rothko, Mark, 19

S

• Sade, D. A. F. de, 167
• Sayers, Dorothy, 48
• Shklovsky, Victor, 54
• Smith, Adam, 78
• Spillane, Mickey, 61, 63
• Stach, Reiner, 147

T

• Truffaut, François, 79

W

• Weininger, Otto, 149
• Welles, Orson, 95
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 3, 34
• Wood, Robin, 97

Z

• Zeno, 3–6
• Zweig, Stephan, 155